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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?
(a) He doesn't mention their education.
(b) They usually only have one or two years of schooling and if they can read, it is not too well.
(c) They were the least eductated of all the common people discussed.
(d) They are better educated than street vendors, and the majority could read.

2. According to the author, how did the gypsy women make money?
(a) Tattooing.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Taking in wash.
(d) Fortune telling.

3. How did she pay for her desires?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Working hard and not turning to the streets.
(c) Running a brothel on the side.
(d) Sending her younger sister to the steets.

4. Where was the convicted thief who was interviewed born?
(a) Sussex.
(b) Paris.
(c) Belgium.
(d) A gypsy camp.

5. What would the street clown prefer to do than being a clown?
(a) A musician.
(b) A groom or police officer.
(c) A dock worker.
(d) A teacher.

6. When did the magician's father die?
(a) When the magician was 10.
(b) When the magician was 2.
(c) He was still alive at the time of the interview.
(d) When the magician was 25.

7. How many paupers, prisoners and lunatics does he cite?
(a) 15,000
(b) 1500.
(c) He has no idea.
(d) 200,000.

8. How did most street folk learn their trade?
(a) From their parents.
(b) As apprentices.
(c) Mostly self taught.
(d) At special art schools.

9. What areas have the most prostitution?
(a) In the wealthier sections where men could afford to pay.
(b) Away from the police stations.
(c) In the industrial sections.
(d) Those frequented by sailors.

10. What motivated the clown to continue working?
(a) He likes the work if it wasn't for the lack of prestige.
(b) His fear of failure.
(c) He will be arrested for breaking a contract.
(d) His wife and children.

11. What did the photographic man do before this job?
(a) Singer.
(b) Banjo player.
(c) Bouncer.
(d) Bar keeper.

12. What did the magician earn at the time of Mayhew's interview with him?
(a) 25 shillings a month.
(b) 4 shillings a week.
(c) 4 pounds a week.
(d) 1 pound a week.

13. What does Mayhew say is difficult or impossible?
(a) To write a book that fails to cover the morally deficient.
(b) To catalogue all the various ways to turn criminal.
(c) To write a book that is fair to those who are morally defective.
(d) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.

14. What had recently become illegal in London?
(a) Pornography including obscene books and pictures.
(b) Alcohol use.
(c) Gerrymandering.
(d) Tobacco use.

15. What did the casual ward provide?
(a) A place to stay for a maximum of six months.
(b) Job search assistance.
(c) Food and shelter for 24 hours only.
(d) Guidance.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long had the clown worked in that capacity?

2. What have many tried to do according to the narrator?

3. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?

4. How many were employed as domestic servants?

5. What was one thing the London City Mission did?

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